Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
My first reaction to reading the story about the continuing saga of San Fancisco’s new Muni line creating problems that are throwing the entire system into chaos (again mind you, this is a regular thing for Muni) was that for the $648 million the line extension cost to build one would think that someone could [...]
Techfold points out 5 things that we need to do to Teqlo to make it better. I posted over on the Teqlo blog my responses to the issues, which I agree are issues. On one hand it’s sobering to think of how much we still need to do, but on the other it’s relieving to [...]
Interesting look at the notion of a scientific process to business success, as espoused by a popular book of the same name. It’s worth reading the review if you are interested, as I am right now, about how to better manage people, however there is a concluding paragraph that captured some wisdom we all need [...]
Wow is all I can say, didn’t see that one coming at all. In fact, given Shai’s position and the perks that it afforded I figured he would stay even though Leo would ultimately get the CEO position. Speaking of Leo, what the hell is “Deputy CEO“? Has anyone ever heard of such a title? [...]
This should be required reading for every CEO in the technology industry. “Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear” (Frank Luntz) I read about it in BusinessWeek: Can pollster and spinmeister Frank Luntz get Corporate America to forgo bizspeak? “If you’re eBay (EBAY ) CEO Meg Whitman, why must you [...]
One of the great things about starting a new business today is that much of the infrastructure you need to get off the ground is available as a monthly service. At Teqlo we control our costs by leveraging this as much as possible, in fact outside of payroll our single biggest expense is a T1 [...]
Yesterday I had the great pleasure of playing a round of golf at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, an annual tradition that is usually blessed by fantastic coastal sunshine but this year was dampened, literally, by a thick fog and heavy mist (or as I called it, pre-sun) conditions. In stepping up to [...]
I’m outbound to Ireland today to speak at the IT@Cork event, my topic is pricing trends. I am looking forward to meeting Tom Raftery in person, having up until know just talked via email or phone with him. That I am speaking on pricing trends is somewhat interesting if for no other reason than this [...]
Read the whole post, he pretty much nails it… Joel on Software: The whole fraud is only possible because performance metrics in knowledge organizations are completely trivial to game. The best part is that most management consultants, the stunningly good-looking, bright, earnest chipmunks with 4.0s in Russian Lit from Harvard who work for these companies, [...]
The world certainly doesn’t need another top 10 list that pontificates on the rules for leadership in business, besides I think Kawasaki has the “Top 10″ concept trademarked by now. Nonetheless, when you take a leadership role in a company you are forced to think about what kind of style and traits you want to [...]